Slatted partition for refrigerator-cars.



No. 833,752. 'PATENTED OCT, 23, 1906. 6.. SETZ'EKORN.

SLATTED PARTITION FOR REFRIGERATOR CARS.

. I APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 20. 1905.

2 SHEBTSSHEET 2 III Witnesses Inventor:

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

CONRAD SETZEKORN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH H. KERR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SLATTED PARTITION FOR REFRIGERATOR-CARS- Patented. Oct. 23, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CONRAD SETzEKoRN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Slatted Partitions for Refrigerator-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a View showing one end of a refrigerator-car, partly in vertical section, illustrating my improved icing-head in position. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the method of mounting the slats in the icing-head, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of modified forms of mounts for said slats.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in a slatted artition em ployed in refrigeratoncars, w ch separates the ice-com artment from the storage-coinpartment o the car, the object being to simplify the construction of the partition, or icing-head, as it is sometimes called, so that in the event of breakage or other causes necessitating the renewal of the parts or any of them the said partition can be repaired quickly and readily and, at relatively small cost.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the body of a refrigerator-car, which may be constructed as usual, in one end of which is an ice-compartment 2, a door 3 opening through the roof of the car, through which door said icecompartment may be iced and re-iced. The side walls of the ice-compartment around the end and side walls of the car are preferably provided with wear-strips 4. The slatted bottom 5 permits the water to drain through into the drain-trough and be discharged to the exterior.

6 indicates vertical posts extending from the floor to the ceiling of the car, which posts have secured to their inner faces horizontallydisposed strips 7, against which the ice in the ice compartment rests. The side faces of these posts are provided with flanged mounts 8, as shown in Fig. 2, the upper flanges of each mount being preferably horizontally disposed and constituting a support for a triangular strip 9, introduced between the post, and whose apex extends inwardly with respect to the ice-compartment over the strips 7. The bottom flange of each mount is obliquely arranged and constitutes a stop for the triangular strips 9, holding said strips against upward displacement and inward movement.

The space provided by the converging ends of the flanges of the mounts determines the s ace between the triangular strips 9 and o osts are thick, so that 7 proximately opposite the spaces between t e triangular strips 9 and, further, that the slats 7 are arranged under the apices of the triangular strips 9, so that the air passing to or from the ice-compartment is compelled to follow a tortuous path. The advantage of this is not only evidenced when the car is used as a refrigerator-car and compartment 2 contains ice, but where the car has no ice and the roof-door is raised so as to induce a circulation of air through the car, and thus ventilate it. The air entering throu h the door will be forced downwardly into t e icecompartment and thence through the icin head, being diffused in its passage throug said head throughout, substantially the entire storage-compartment.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a modified form of triangular strip 9, wherein the upper corner of the strip, as at 9*, has been removed to increase the space between the strips.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modified form of mount in which, instead of being made up of separate pieces, the strip is embossed and secured to the vertical post as an entirety.

I am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described the invention, whatis-claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination withsupporting-posts, of mounts carried thereby, triangular strips supported by said mounts, and backing-strips secured to the posts and extending laterally over the ends of the triangular strips to hold them in position; substantially as described.

2. The combination with posts, of mounts arranged thereon, said mounts comprising a horizontally-disposed portion and an obliquely-arranged portion, and triangular strips supported by said mounts; substantially as described.

3. The combination with posts, of mounts arranged thereon and having a horizontal portion and an oblique portion, triangular strips arranged in said mounts between said posts, and means for holding said triangular strips in position; substantially as described.

4. The combination with supporting-posts having slats 7 secured to one side thereof, and triangular strips arranged between the posts, and whose apices extend over the upper faces of-said slats; substantially as described.

5. The combination with supporting-posts,

of triangular strips arranged therebetween, means for holding said triangular strips in position, guard-slats arranged behind the triangular strips and substantially in horizontal alinement with the spaces between the strips; substantially as described.

6. The combination with vertical posts having mounts arranged on the side faces thereof, triangular strips supported in position by said mounts and whose apices extend inwardly beyond the posts, slats 7 arranged under the apices of said triangular strips, vertically-disposed strips 10 secured to the rear faces of the posts and overlapping the ends of the posts for holding the same against displacement, and slats 11 secured to the strips 10 and substantially in horizontal alinenient with the spaces between the triangular strips; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 17th day of January, 1906.

CONRAD SETZEKORN.

Witnesses JosEPrr H. KERR, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

